Review Summary

Dean Seagrave (David Sutcliffe), the protagonist of "Testosterone," a shaky comic noir larded with soft-core sex, is a successful graphic novelist with writer's block who ambles around, delivering wisecracks in the genial raised-eyebrow style of James Garner. They hardly sound like the musings of a man with a broken heart, although he insists that the sudden disappearance of his Argentine boyfriend (Antonio Sabato Jr.) of 10 months has left him devastated, and to prove it he flies to Buenos Aires to have one last confrontation. The movie represents a big, awkward step into the unknown for its director, whose debut film, "Edge of Seventeen," about the sexual initiation of a gay Ohio teenager, stands as one of the more heartfelt coming-out stories brought to the screen. Here, the director aspires to stir up an elusive blend of gallows humor and menace. But the movie's narrative momentum is too tentative and its plot too muddled for the pieces of its story to fit or for its styles to jell.  Holden